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MATCH. No. 326,851. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT F. COOKE, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HORACE HOLDEN, OF EAST ORANGE, NE? JERSEY.

MATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,851, dated September 22, 1885.

(Specimens) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. 000111;, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Matches, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my improvement consists in attaching matches one to the other by means of a suitable string, to enable packing the same into a case or box, so that one match, while being pulled out, will draw the next match after it in regular rotation, as may be required, and, further, in the manner of securing the string to the matches.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents the outside view of a single match ou an enlarged scale. Fig. II is a section of the same. Fig. III shows a side view, and Fig. IV a plan,of one bundle of matches. Fig. V shows the manner a number of matches are arranged in a case, and Fig. VI shows the matches attached to a string spread out.

Similar letters represent similar parts in all figures.

The matches provided with the below-described improvement are for the purpose of being used in a match-case (fully described in another application for a patent) in which the matches are successively drawn out of its case, as required.

For the match proper I employ the usual well-known wax match,(represented at A,) of the required length. This match Ais inclosed in a paper case, B, saturated with paraffine or any other suitable material, to stiffen the same, and to facilitate its turning freely with the wax taper when ignited. Between the wax taper A and the paper case B the required string, 0, is placed, after which the whole is indented in two or more places, a, whereby the string 0 obtains the required fastening to the wax taper A. (See Fig. II.) The length of string from one match to the other must be a little more than the length of the case B. The matches are then put in a bunch or cluster, as shown in Figs. III and IV, with their heads all upward, and these bunches are packed in a suitable thin casing, D, the bottom of which may be tight, but the top of which is only slightly bent over to retain the matches, but to allow the easy withdrawal of the matches from the case D.

By this arrangement as soon as one match has been pulled out of the case the next one attached to the string will come in a position to be pulled out, and thus follow each other successively until every match has been withdrawn from the case D.

As these matches are intended to be used in a peculiarly-constructed match-case, the first introduction of a case, D, filled with matches arranged as above described will require the facility to pull the first match through a small tube. For this purpose a very thin wire,horsehair, a long bristle, F, or any similar suitable material is attached to the last match, or to that match which must be first pulled out, of sufficient length to reach above the top of the match-case when the case D has been put in place. By means of this hair or bristle F the first match, after the case or match-cartridge D has been placed into the match-case, can easily be pulled upward through a suitable guiding-tube, after which, on account of the connection of one match with the other by means of the string 0, the matches will be successively drawn out of the case D, as may be required, and as fully explained in the specification of the match-case.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described match, consisting of a usual Wax match, A, inclosed in a casing, B, and attached to a string, 0, substantially in the manner described.

2. In a wax match, A, surrounded by a case, B, and string 0, placed between the match and case, one or more indentations, a, in the manner and for the purpose described.

ROBERT F. OOOKE.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY E. ROEDER, HORACE HOLDEN. 

